Bits of Darkness: Bundle

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220+ descriptions to breathe life into your underground world.

Bring new life to all your dark places with the "Bits of Darkness" Bundle. It includes both "Bits of Darkness: Dungeons" and "Bits of Darkness: Caverns," totalling over 220 shadowy descriptions to energize your adventures. These are "on the go" products, which means you don't need to read the entire work before you can use them. The descriptions are designed to be randomly generated as you play or placed with malice aforethought, and are written to be of use to both experienced and inexperienced Game Masters, particularly those who (for whatever reason) find themselves short on time or creativity.

Never again be forced to tell a player, "The room is just empty." Instead, whip out Dungeon Bit #47 and read, "You come across a backpack that appears to have been ripped open by a clawed hand and teeth. Its worthless contents have been scattered around, torn, and trampled..." and so on, painting a picture to add spice and interest to your dungeon, crypt, or other dark place. Essentially, nothing has changed. There is still effectively nothing there, but it is no longer "just another empty room!" Or use a Cavern Bit for details on stalactites, stagnant pools, and other subterranean delights.

Each of the two products includes 100 of the descriptions in index-card format, for easy use by the GM during game play. Bonus material is also included, such as an article on fantasy caving, two new Swarms, and a handful of descriptions of catacombs, just in case.

Bits of Darkness products use material from the SRD, but could be used in any fantasy setting with very minor modifications. These are part of the "Harried Game Master" line of products, providing the materials we've always wished to have.

I've been running a game of D&D since the early 70's and am I ashamed. This excellent product has shown me how jaded and bland my adventures have become. I think this is the most useful and imaginative product I have yet purchased on this site. No [...]

The skinny: Tabletop Adventures' Bits of Darkness Bundle contains the 'Bits of Dakrness: Caverns' and 'Bits of Darkness: Dungeons' products, both of which combined comprise about 65 pages of information and 200 'bit' cards altogether. Each page is jam-pa [...]

An excellent gaming aid, empty caverns and dungeon rooms will never be the same (and any room or location that seems a bit bland). The only thing I dislike about it is the d20 element in some of the Bits but it is still usable with any fantasy RPG with [...]

Since I originally posted my review of this product, Tabletop Adventures has released a revised version of this product that resolves the ?cut & paste? problems. I cannot commend Tabletop Adventures highly enough for resolving these issues. It is [...]

Overall this is a very sound product that gives GMs easy access to bits of narrative to spice up any cavern or dungeon. The narrative is written in such a manner that the descriptions could be easily incorporated into any setting. LIKED: [...]

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